Re: What bad habits has programming given you?

Posted 06 January 2012 - 11:05 AM

Analyticism, cold-hearted objectivism, and socially unacceptable behavior stemming from such
I've been programming pretty much my entire life that resides in memory (father maintains that I started HTML when I was 6 and C when I was 7). As such I really can't see how other people do not understand the languages, and that notion has spread into every aspect of my academic life thus far. If someone doesn't understand and I do, I have to stop myself from automatically labeling them an idiot (which has gotten a lot better the past few years )

As mentioned, I also tend to see everything in an OOP-style and this tends to cause an awkward method of explanation for those who do not XD.

Although, one major benefit it has given me (with all the languages I messed with before I was 10) is quite the ability to learn a new language and use it effectively

Re: What bad habits has programming given you?

Posted 13 August 2012 - 10:49 PM

Let's see... I use // to comment out math work, and I sometimes end a line of math with a semicolon. Also, I learned != before =/=, so it seems much more natural to me. Sometimes I use x++ as a shorthand in my notes. And in math when we learned about sequences I was pissed that we didn't have to write out a for-loop or recursive function for the Fibonacci sequence. It's cool that we all do these things

Re: What bad habits has programming given you?

Posted 04 December 2012 - 05:21 AM

badjava, on 12 November 2008 - 03:25 AM, said:

absynthe, on 11 Nov, 2008 - 09:13 PM, said:

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I dont know why but my creative muse strikes about 1-2 AM, if I want to ride the wave I end up getting no sleep until bout 7 or 8 the next morning with no sleep. KILLS my sleep schedule and dealing with family n stuff, plus I have serious immune system problems so if I hit 2 weird nights in a row with no sleep I could end up in pretty serious trouble *sigh* Why can't the stroke of genius hit some other time of the day???

Oh yeah item #2, trying to explain to ANYone what I was able to accomplish when I get a brainstorm and pull off what for me is some pretty slick logic that I'm kinda proud of. Wife, she starts to sweat and asks me to stop when I walk her through a data flow diagram, send code to buddies to have them run it and they're like, huh yeah ok nice program... Try to find someone who GETS it to talk with!!! ARHGHGHHH!

I understand your problem mate... I live neck deep in an Indian village and everybody in my school is as dumb as soup. Don't get me wrong, academically they are quite good, but none of them can think as logically. Also,

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Let's see... I use // to comment out math work, and I sometimes end a line of math with a semicolon. Also, I learned != before =/=, so it seems much more natural to me. Sometimes I use x++ as a shorthand in my notes. And in math when we learned about sequences I was pissed that we didn't have to write out a for-loop or recursive function for the Fibonacci sequence. It's cool that we all do these things

I make all my calculations in math functions, when working with linear inequalities I use && and |, and I terminate all my math staements with ;

Re: What bad habits has programming given you?

Posted 05 July 2013 - 02:59 PM

I tend to approach math problems at school as if I had an interpreter next to me. I shy away from elegant, purely-mathematical solutions and look for more intuitive, imperative ones. For example, it's easier for me to write a compound interest function using a loop and a variable than just f(x) = math.

Overall, though, programming is a wonderful mental exercise. You have to think mathematically, logically, verbally, and, believe it or not, spatially, regardless of the application you're working on. I think programming is unparalleled because it utilizes such a wide range of mental faculties.

Re: What bad habits has programming given you?

Posted 08 July 2013 - 07:49 PM

One of my profs will say "push" before going down a related road in the discussion and then later "pop" to come back to the topic that was at hand when he said the corresponding "push". Me and my boss will jokingly say "call/cc" before going off on a tangent; this is basically to poke fun at a) call/cc ourselves for being so scatter brained and c) the guy that started it by saying "push" and "pop" in conversations.